Taming the Alien: A White Arrest, Taming The Alien, And The Mcdead (Digital Original) (The White Trilogy #2)

By: Ken Bruen

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Synopsis: Cops Roberts and Brant come back swinging in book two of the &“hip, violent and funny&” crime novel trilogy set on &“the mean streets of southeast London&” (Publishers Weekly). South London&’s Chief Inspector Roberts and his partner, the reckless and thuggish Irish Detective Sergeant Brant, are at odds with who has it worse: Roberts, with a mortgage in Dulwich, a pregnant daughter in boarding school, and a dire medical diagnosis; or Brant, relegated to desk duty after getting knifed in the back, and living to see his complete Ed McBain collection destroyed by a psycho with a baseball bat. That particular nut job has been dubbed the Alien, a hit man so named for carrying out a skull-smashing job while watching Ridley Scott&’s sci-fi classic, and hanging around in the spatter to finish the film. But this time the carnage isn&’t confined to southeast London. As Brant heads to New York by way of Dublin to catch the couple who knifed him and the Alien goes to San Francisco to pay a surprise visit to his former girlfriend, Bruen&’s broad, brutal canvas once again shows why he&’s been hailed as one of &“the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades&” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).